Joelle Causing Drama
Tonight the drama got turned up from the previous two Biggest Loser shows. Joelle from the gray team is really getting on the other contestants last nerves. She has been at the bottom of the weigh-in each week and is demonstrating that she is a weak player.

The Temptation
The one thing that got most of the rest of the players was the temptation this week, where each person was offered pizza, fried chicken nuggets, tacos and cupcakes to consume. The players at home were given the same challenge and the team that devoured the most calories was offered a trip back home to workout with their partner trained by Bob Harper. Well, Mandi ate a piece of pizza to try to get home and see her kids. All the other teams at the ranch ate nothing. The game switches to the player at home and Sione of the blue team pounded down two pieces of pizza and a cupcake to take the lead. Now Joelle’s partner Carla ate over 2000 calories of junk food and they won the challenge. Bob went to Detroit and trained both of the gray team. While there Carla gave a ton of attitude and challenged Joelle that she just wasn’t doing her part. From my point, she doesn’t seem motivated enough for the show.

The Challenge
The challenge for this week was the ability to jump over a rotating movable bar without breaking it. The winner received immunity for the night’s weigh-in. Two girls Tara and Kristin went 2 hours and 19 minutes jumping the bar where Tara ended up winning. That was an incredible feat of strength and endurance.

The Weigh-In

Player

Team Color

Starting Weight from Beginning

Starting Weight Tonight

Lost Tonight

Total Now

Percent Lost

Total Lost So Far

Blaine

Black

365 Lbs

335 lbs

-12

323 lbs

4.21 %

42 lbs

Dane

Black

412 Lbs

378 lbs

-18

360 lbs

52 lbs

Filipe

Blue

364 Lbs

338 lbs

-14

324 lbs

4.14 %

40 lbs

Daniel

Orange

454 Lbs

421 lbs

-15

406 lbs

3.56 %

48 lbs

Mandi

Yellow

263 Lbs

245 lbs

-8

237 lbs

3.27 %

26 lbs

Mike

Brown

388 Lbs

359 lbs

-11

348 lbs

2.68 %

40 lbs

Ron

Brown

430 Lbs

386 lbs

-9

377 lbs

53 lbs

Helen

Pink

257 Lbs

237 lbs

-6

231 lbs

2.53 %

26 lbs

Kristin

Purple

360 Lbs

331 lbs

-7

324 lbs

2.11 %

36 lbs

Tara (Immunity)

Green

294 Lbs

272 lbs

-8

264 lbs

N/A

30 lbs

Below the Yellow Line

Joelle

Gray

309 Lbs

294 lbs

-6

288 lbs

2.04 %

21 lbs

Damien

Red

381 Lbs

355 lbs

-4

351 lbs

1.13 %

30 lbs

The Vote-Off
The vote to send the player home was a bazaar one last night. Joelle is not a motivated player and based upon personality, you would think that they made an easy decision to send her home. However, that’s not what happened and those that train with Jillian voted to send Damian home which made it a tie and because he lost the least amount of weight by percentage last night, he went home. Now, I do think that the people forget that this is a game and by keeping the weaker player, the person who stays gets an easy road to the final prize of $250,000. Tonight they may have gotten it right, but who knows how this plays out next week. I won’t forget that they did this on fear and intimidation last season to keep Vicky hanging around until the final.

About the Author

Tom Rooney is the chief cook and bottle washer for HomeFitnessBody.com. He started his site as a way for him to be more in tune with a healthier lifestyle. A former lazy lump of a person got his wakeup call when he was diagnosed with type II diabetes and decided to battle it through diet and exercise. Things are significantly better now and the wellness factor is on the plus side. You can catch reviews, rating, rants and ramblings most every day.

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I thought it was really interesting that they sent Damien home. Glad to see he and his fiancee are doing so well – I’d love to see them make a good showing at the finale.

I felt bad for Mandi this week. She had a major pity party, and she did it on national TV. Sigh. She really isn’t like that – but I think it all just caught up to her. I know that some members of her family are flat out PO’d that she’s been gone doing this and I think she probably has a lot of guilt heaped on her because of it. I hope we get to see a better side of her. I know her best friend said that Mandi’s whole attitude has changed now and she is just super focused. I can’t wait to see!

Okay, I’ve been at this computer long enough and it’s time for me to get to MY workout! 🙂

It is funny that you say this. I am a big fan of the show, but sometimes when I watch to show and see all the game play I feel the same way. To me it should be the person that lost the lease weight that week should go.

As far as making money off of people’s health problems – yeah I guess they do. They also inspire an awful lot of people to get off their butts and DO something about their health, so it’s not all a bad thing.